Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Oliver 4-9-2012
Video from lesson on Monday. Ollie is drastically different from riding Butters, and I like it. He does not have a smooth round jump, and would rather rush fences versus sputter to a halt or straight out refuse them. Keeping him consistent to the fence is key, and staying with that jump is very good too! I re-learned about the magical world of mane-grabbing... it saved my butt and Ollie's mouth. The first few fences (NOT shown in the video haha!) on him were probably the worst I've ever done: I got horribly left behind and popped him in the mouth, poor guy! Thankfully it was reversed by the end of the lesson. He is also much more forgiving and tries a lot harder than Butters. Don't get me wrong, I like them both... but if I had to choose favorites, well, y'know....
I love learning on different ponies!
Greta has been quite well lately, still not too happy about the lack of a real job ("MOM walking around is NOT work!" If only more people shared the same mindset!) but happy enough nonetheless.
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Oliver is quite a cutie, and you look like you're having loads of fun! We'll make an eventer out of you yet... ;)
ReplyDeleteYES PLEASE I WOULD LOVE TO BE AN EVENTER! They have all the cool battle scars ;)
DeleteYou may want to look at that video again - rather than getting left behind, you're ahead. The "behind" feeling is when your body's trying to come back up before he's done jumping.
ReplyDeleteI say this from experience because it's SO HARD to fix. :) But you aren't *bad* and certainly far better than I was with that issue!
(It's only the slow-mo which really makes it so I can see it, which means you're doing pretty darned well!)
Deletehahaha I definitely try to jump FOR the horse, a bad habit from my "jump like superman" hunter days four years ago. The more I develop the feel, the better it will get hopefully! If I could do with dressage, I can do it here too.
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